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Notes on the recent discovery of ancient cultivated rice at Jiahu, Henan Province: a new theory concerning the origin of Oryza japonica in China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Zhang Juzhong  and
Wang Xiangkun
Zhang Juzhong
Affiliation:
Henan Cultural Relics & Archaeology Institute, Zhengzhou, Henan 450000, China
Wang Xiangkun
Affiliation:
China Agriculture University, Beijing 100094, China
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China is one of the places for the origin of the Asian cultivated rice (Oka 1988), but there are different theories for precise locations where ancient cultivated rice first originated, including those proposing South China and Yunnan (Li 1989) or the middle and lower Yangtze River Valley (Yan 1989), or the middle Yangtze and the upper Huai River Valley (Wang 1996) as the site of the oldest rice cultivation in China. The discovery (Zhang et al. 1994) of ancient rice at Jiahu in Henan province not only pushed the history of rice agriculture in the Huai River region back to 9000 BP, but also indicated the existence of an agricultural tradition of rice cultivation in the region from the beginning of the Holocene Anathermal until the end of the Holocene megathermal.

Keywords

Upper Huai river valleyJiahu siteNeolithicorigin of Oryza japonica9000 BP
Type
Special section: Rice domestication
Information
Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 278 , December 1998 , pp. 897 - 901
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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